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April 8, 2008

Death Perception

O’Brien employs different strategies for dealing with the very difficult subject. Discuss O’Brien’s technique from at least three different vignettes. As always pair text with commentary. 
Seeing as how I had no idea what the word vignettes meant, I had to look it up.
Oh and I’m not sure if I’m answering this right, I’m not sure if it’s [...]

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April 2, 2008

Comrades

Compare the definition of Comrades with O’Brien’s interrelationship of characters in “Friends and Enemies”.  Pay particular attention to the way the characters are revealed.
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April 1, 2008

How do our main characters stack up against the traditional norms? What is your definition of courage and heroism? What other experiences or literary works have worked to build this definition for you? How do O’Brien and Crane achieve their goals? What literary spin are they putting on the ball of words to get us [...]

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